Remote Associate Director - Highways and Infrastructure in Sheffield

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

Our Highways team, within our Transportation business line, have a vacancy for an Associate Director with experience in managing the delivery of transportation engineering schemes in our Belfast office. You will be joining our Ireland Highways team, of over 70 staff, who are recognised as market leaders in the areas of highways, public transport, and active travel and continue to deliver high profile and impactful projects across the island of Ireland.

The successful candidate will be joining a growing team that works with a range of both local and national clients on the island of Ireland. You will be someone interested in leading the delivery teams of our diverse range of projects including +150km of greenways in County Donegal, ambitious complex Northern Ireland roads projects such as the Newry Southern Relief Road, and major infrastructure projects across Ireland such as the Adare Bypass and Carlow Southern Relief Road.

You will have proven experience in civil engineering, infrastructure, or transportation projects, and be a self-motivated individual looking to advance their career in a dynamic team. In addition to delivering work within the local office, the role will involve working with other AECOM teams in the UK and Ireland. We are therefore seeking candidates who are able to work flexibly across other AECOM offices as projects dictate to support the wider business.

Here's what you'll do:

• Anticipate: Understand our project delivery requirements and operational requirements and anticipate and solve routine and usual problems for both our teams and our clients.
• Deliver: The Highways team are responsible for the full lifecycle delivery of projects aimed at improving our transport network for clients across Ireland.
• Oversee: Responsible for the appointment of competent discipline lead engineers for technical delivery.
• Provide Expertise: Offer technical knowledge and expertise to the design team on all aspects of multi-disciplinary projects.
• Ensure Quality: Hold our clients' hands and overcome problems in unison when they inevitably arise.
• Collaborate: Lead a team of multi-disciplinary engineers to deliver integrated designs and build effective relationships with our technical teams and Clients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Promote our strong health and safety culture through management of safety on projects.
• Ensure Technical content and quality of output produced is in line with the project brief and our client deliverables.
• Support and monitor team skills and ensure they are up to date with current best practice, techniques, and innovation.
• Manage career progression of line reports, particularly toward Chartered Engineer (or similar) status.
• Develop sound client relationships, being alert to commercial opportunities.
• Prepare detailed proposals, client briefs and fee proposals and contribute to or lead bids.

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us.